Google Cloud for Faculty

Teach your students with Google Cloud and prepare them for the cloud-first world. Access Google Cloud credits and learning programs for use in the classroom at no cost.

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Inspire students like these who created an app to help the hearing impaired

Access resources

Prepare your students for careers with the cloud. Access Google Cloud credits for hands-on learning and the Career Launchpad Program for access to Google Cloud Certificates and credentials.

Cloud credits

Apply for Cloud credits for your students. Eligible faculty can apply to receive up to $100 in Google Cloud credits per teaching staff and up to $50 in Cloud credits per student.

Apply for teaching credits

Google Cloud Career Launchpad

Coach students through a Google Cloud Certificate or course pathway as part of an on-demand learning program designed to help prepare your students for cloud-based careers.

Facilitate the Career Launchpad Program

Manage Google Cloud credits

After you receive Google Cloud credits, learn how to redeem education credits and get started. Then explore resources below to learn best practices and troubleshoot common issues.

Learn how to manage billing on Google Cloud including disabling accounts, setting budgets, exporting billing reports, and more.

Learn about billing

Learn how to monitor and manage costs in Google Cloud. This guide aggregates a number of helpful resources.

Learn to manage costs

Prevent students from inadvertently signing up for the Google Cloud Free Trial program, which requires them to use a credit card.

Read the guide

This guide explains how students working on a group project can pool their individual Google Cloud credits to fund a group project.

Set up group projects

Join the community

Join the Faculty Community and connect with fellow faculty who are using Google Cloud in their classrooms. Only faculty who have been verified and approved to receive Google Cloud credits are eligible to join. Please request access using your school-issued email address.

Join the community